Self Abdication Quotes

#1. They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication.

Ayn Rand

#2. Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. Stagnation is self-abdication.

Ryan Talbot

#4. What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

John Stuart Mill

#5. Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Charles M. Blow

#6. No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

Ayn Rand

#7. The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small-
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

#8. Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Simone Weil

#9. The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. Partying at this time of ecological meltdown is not affirming of reality, but an abdication from it. It is a place of false refuge especially so when there is no evidence of an acknowledgement of affirming life as it is, for this would require of these people a heartbrokeness.

Stephen Jenkinson

#11. We have had word that some political groups are calling for the forced abdication of Emperor Kaito.

Marissa Meyer

#12. Research has shown the challenge caused by Climate change is mainly man-made due to abdication of leadership and personal responsibility in taking care of the environment. Will you be part of the army replenishing the earth and promoting proper stewardship of its resources?

Archibald Marwizi

#13. A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

Ralph Nader

#14. Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Daniel Ellsberg

#15. I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

Jon Stewart

#16. delegation without follow-through is abdication.

Andrew S. Grove

#17. Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Erica Jong

#18. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Mariama Ba

#19. I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

Geoffrey Rush

#20. Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

R.D. Laing

#21. Abdication Isn't Empowerment

Miles Anthony Smith

#22. Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#23. When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication.

Jorge G. Castaneda

#24. The combination of parental abdication and social liberalism in our schools means that kids are easy targets for nihilism and moral subjectivism.

Ben Shapiro

#25. Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

Michael E. Gerber

#26. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

Scott Hammerle

#27. There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Jaron Lanier

#28. The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Carl Bernstein

#29. It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.

Michael Lee

#30. Intelligent design ideology being promoted today is not science - it is rather the abdication of science.

Steven Weinberg

#31. In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.

Julian Fellowes

#32. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson